The Herald leads with claims that a top civil servant “misled” parents over their right to opt children out of controversial primary school assessments. The allegation relates to a letter which Graeme Logan, a deputy director in the Scottish government’s learning directorate, sent out saying that all pupils must participate unless there are “exceptional circumstances”.
The Scotsman
The Scotsman also focuses on P1 testing, saying the Scottish government faces a Holyrood “showdown” after a major review by ministers concluded the tests should not be axed. The paper says the Liberal Democrats now plan to bring forward a vote in the Scottish Parliament on the testing process.
The Sun
The Scottish Sun leads with a hit-and-run driver who deliberately drove his car into six children who “got caught in a bitter gang feud”. Gerald Gavan careered into the youngsters after he tried to mow down a man who he was involved in a family battle with.
The Times
The Times says pro-Remain Tory MPs are reporting sharp rises in applications to join their local parties, deepening fears that they are being targeted by Ukip supporters ahead of any bid to oust Theresa May as prime minister. The paper also carries claims that the level of care in Scotland’s hospitals is suffering as waiting times rise again.
Daily Express
The Daily Express says Theresa May has “brushed aside Tory leadership plotting” among rivals who want to replace her with Boris Johnson. The PM has insisted she will stay in her job “for the long-term” and deliver a Brexit deal.
The i
The i newspaper says a new way of reading heart scans could predict heart attacks “years in advance”. It is claimed the development could save lives and “transform” health in middle-age.
Daily Mail
The Daily Mail says the Scottish government’s performance on NHS waiting times has “sunk to a new low”. Official figures show the number of people waiting more than 12 weeks for inpatient or day hospital treatment reached 18,338 in the three months to the end of June.
The National
The National leads with an Italian woman and her American partner receiving a note at their home in Paisley telling them to remove a Saltire from their window as it was “lowering the tone of the neighbourhood”. The couple say they were “astonished” by the objection, which they claim would not happen in their own countries.
Daily Record
The Daily Record’s front page is dominated by the death of the father of murder victim Paige Doherty. Boxer John Bothwell, 37, was said by his family to have “died of a broken heart” after struggling to cope with the death of 15-year-old Paige, who was killed by John Leathem in Clydebank.
Daily Star
The Daily Star says celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has offered a job in one of his restaurants to a 3ft 10in tall man after hearing he was told he was too small to attended a college cookery course.
Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph leads with a former chief rabbi claiming Jeremy Corbyn’s criticism of British Zionists was the “most offensive” statement by a British politician since Enoch Powell’s River of Blood speech in 1968. Lord Sacks said Mr Corbyn was an “anti-Semite” who “defies our politics and demeans the country we love”.
Press and Journal
The Press and Journal’s Aberdeenshire edition leads with claims that French fishermen “put lives at risk” by hurling rocks and flares at a Scottish trawler as they drove it from a stretch of the English Channel. The clash happened around 12 nautical miles (22km) off the Normandy coast, near the Bay of Seine. British boats are legally-entitled to fish in the scallop-rich area.
The Courier
The Courier’s Dundee edition says an 81-year-old woman was caught with stolen goods after the police stopped and searched her. The paper says the woman is the oldest person in Scotland to have been involved in the procedure.
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